Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs QwQ-32B

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #136 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.4

Rank #153 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 6 categories and QwQ-32B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where QwQ-32B leads 36.2 to 22.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 77.3% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 65.3% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1QwQ-32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.839.4
Released2025-08-052024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked4836

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.3 (#69), QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1QwQ-32B
LMArena Coding14791333
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 34.8 (#38), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1QwQ-32B
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 31.6 (#70), QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1QwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles7%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14431326
Epoch Capabilities Index144.11137.6
ForecastBench6258.3
SimpleBench60%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
LMCA37.1%—
LiveBench—72%

Math QwQ-32B leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.0 (#267), QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1QwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%59.2%
LMArena Math14301359
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
LiveBench Math—77.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 41.9 (#93), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1QwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond77.3%65.3%
Confabulations17.1%15.6%
LMArena Expert14391323
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.2 (#114), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1QwQ-32B
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.1 (#90), QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1QwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English14051306
LMArena Chinese14271378
LMArena French14321337
LMArena German14121313
LMArena Japanese13781263
LMArena Korean13811278
LMArena Russian14211297
LMArena Spanish14481353

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.8 (#53), QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1QwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14361297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#60), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1QwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query14551308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.6 (#70), QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1QwQ-32B
LMArena Text14191329
LMArena Creative Writing14121288
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%80.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn14441314
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than QwQ-32B?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and QwQ-32B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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